My Blog Setup
Hello! I started this blog inspired by Steve. I liked the idea of an open, decentralized community focused on simplicity and intentional choices, as compared to social media platforms controlled by big tech companies running an algorithm designed to keep you addicted. I don't know how much I'll post here. Anyways, for my first post, I thought I'd talk about how I set up my blog, which as someone slightly obsessed with stack choices, I find quite interesting.
I originally planned to use a custom blogging engine I built with Gemini CLI (which was an interesting experience btw), but then realized that this kind of thing has already been made and perfected. Then because I'm lazy I decided to just use Bear Blog, because it's just so much simpler. I plan on switching to Astro or something at some point, but for now I quite like Bear.
The last thing to talk about is my feeds page. I use feeeed on my phone for syndication. I exported the .opml file and realized I have to convert this to markdown somehow. I know this is a common problem, so I looked (for like 30 seconds) for a tool to use. Then I realized this would be a great job for Simon Wilson's llm tool. So I ran this command:
cat feeeed.opml | llm -s "convert this opml to a markdown list with each item in the list being a link to the website's homepage. each item in the list should also have a link to the rss."
and got a pretty good result. I really like that tool. Any questions or comments, please email me at chat.randomblog@gmail.com. I'd love to here from you!
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